Friday’s Religion News Roundup

Eleven faith leaders were arrested in the Capitol rotunda yesterday after they sang and prayed for Congress to pass a budget deal that didn’t include cuts that could hurt America’s poor. Rev. Howard Creecy Jr, civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership conference, died yesterday. He was 57. U.S. soldier Naser Adbo […]

Eleven faith leaders were arrested in the Capitol rotunda yesterday after they sang and prayed for Congress to pass a budget deal that didn’t include cuts that could hurt America’s poor.

Rev. Howard Creecy Jr, civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership conference, died yesterday. He was 57.

U.S. soldier Naser Adbo has admitted to planning another shooting at Fort Hood after being arrested just three miles from the post with weapons in his motel room and a bomb in his backpack.


The feds are suing a Taco Bell in North Carolina after it allegedly fired an employee whose religious beliefs prohibited him from cutting his hair.

The remains of Boston’s first Catholic cardinal have been moved, ending a years-long debate between the cardinal’s family and the owners of the land on which he was buried.

Speaking of Boston Catholics, a Catholic watchdog group in Boston has disclosed the names of nine priests who they say were accused of sexual abuse, claiming that a local Cardinal has been too slow in making good on a promise to release a list of suspected pedophile priests.

Apple Computer has removed iTunes from the Christian Values Network after more than 22,000 people signed a petition criticizing the network.

Mum’s the word at the trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who recently decided to represent himself. Jeffs has reportedly opted to remain silent through the proceedings.

The principal of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe has been fired after he refused to accept changes made to the school’s governing documents including adherence to a faith statement put forth by the Southern Baptist Convention.


The first academic journal on secularism and nonreligion is set to debut in January.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists that attempting to stop Gov. Rick Perry from sponsoring a national day of Christian prayer and fasting.

-Jack Jenkins

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